Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gerwyn Williams (filmmaker, musician)


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The result was speedy delete. (non-admin closure) Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Gerwyn Williams (filmmaker, musician)

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Delete. Poorly referenced article about a filmmaker and musician, with no strong claim of notability per either WP:CREATIVE or WP:NMUSIC. His notability as a filmmaker boils down to winning a short film award at a small film festival whose awards don't confer an automatic ANYBIO pass, and his notability as a musician seems to hinge on self-released music that was never released beyond his own social networking profile on MySpace. And for sourcing, all we have here is the MySpace profile, a brief namecheck of his existence in a non-notable directory entry for a non-notable band he was in as a teenager, and unspecified content in the "archives" of the film festival itself. Which means that we have zero sources here that could count toward getting him over WP:GNG for anything, and no notability claims compelling enough to grant him an exemption from having to be referenced better than this. And there's a possible conflict of interest here as well, because the article was created by a user named "TheNic" and the content includes a testimonial quote from somebody named Nic D'ea (with no explanation given of who Nic D'ea is or why we should care about his personal opinion of Williams). Wikipedia is not a place for people to eulogize their own friends and family — but there's just no substance or sourcing here on which to hang a proper Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 23:40, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wales-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:18, 8 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment An anon IP blanked the page and the Afd tag. Since it's unclear whether that was the article creator, neglecting to log in, I've restored the page content. If it is the same person, we could speedy this. I've raised the question on the article creator's user talk page. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:19, 8 March 2017 (UTC)


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